Manhattan School of Music Centennial Book Teaser

Coming Fall 2019

Have you seen these?

A sampling of selections from the Manhattan School of Music Archives to be included in upcoming Commemorative MSM Centennial Book

COVER PHOTO: A young student in 1925

Manhattan School of Music founder, Janet Daniels Schenck

Pianist Dora Zaslavsky, who would go on to teach at MSM for more than 60 years, with a fellow student: two of the School’s first graduates

1928: The newly built home of Manhattan School of Music, then known as the Neighborhood Music School, on East 105th Street

Guest pianist Ernest Hutcheson with a group of students and faculty after a 1931 recital

Program from an early fund-raiser

Conductor Jonel Perlea rehearsing the orchestra, ca. 1952

Marian Anderson, with students and President John Brownlee, prepares to give the 1965 MSM commencement address

A lesson

Pianist John Lewis, an alumnus, and the Modern Jazz Quartet give a benefit at Carnegie Hall for MSM in April 1966

President John Brownlee with honored guests Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein at an MSM benefit at the Waldorf

Yehudi Menuhin gives a master class in 1976

Susan Graham in the title role of the MSM Opera Theater production of Massenet’s Chérubin in 1987

Want to see more?

These and other treasures from the Manhattan School of Music Archives will be published this fall in a deluxe 250-page, full-color book celebrating the culmination of our Centennial. Quantities will be limited, so please visit msmnyc.edu/CentennialBook to reserve your copy.

The MSM neighborhood looking northeast in the 1980s (can you spot the School in the foreground?)

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